Gorakhpur Urban (Assembly constituency)
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Gorakhpur Urban is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Gorakhpur Urban in the Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[1][2][3]
| Gorakhpur Urban | |
|---|---|
| Constituency for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| District | Gorakhpur |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2017 |
| Party | Bharatiya Janta Party |
| MLA | Radha Mohan Das Agarwal |
| Reservation | None |
Gorakhpur Urban is one of five assembly constituencies in the Gorakhpur (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 322 amongst 403 constituencies.
Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Radha Mohan Das Agarwal who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Indian National Congress candidate Rana Rahul Singh by a margin of 60,730 votes.[4]
Members of Legislative AssemblyEdit
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Istafa Hussain | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | |||
| 1962 | Niyamatullah Ansari | ||
| 1967 | Udai Pratap Dubey | Bharatiya Jan Sangh | |
| 1969 | Ram Lal Bhai | Indian National Congress | |
| 1974 | Awadhesh Kumar Srivastava | Bharatiya Jan Sangh | |
| 1977 | Janata Party | ||
| 1980 | Sunil Shastri | Indian National Congress (Indira) | |
| 1985 | Indian National Congress | ||
| 1989 | Shiv Pratap Shukla | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 1991 | |||
| 1993 | |||
| 1996 | |||
| 2002 | Radha Mohan Das Agarwal | Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha | |
| 2007 | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 2012 | |||
| 2017 | |||
Election resultsEdit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Yogi Adityanath | ||||
| SP | |||||
| BSP | |||||
| INC | |||||
| NOTA | None of the Above | ||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| [[|N/A]] hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Dr. Radha Mohan Das Agarwal | 1,22,221 | 55.85 | ||
| INC | Rana Rahul Singh | 61,491 | 28.10 | ||
| BSP | Janardan Chaudhary | 24,297 | 11.10 | ||
| PECP | Arun Kumar Srivastava | 2,252 | 1.03 | ||
| RLD | Vinod Kumar Rai | 946 | 0.43 | ||
| NOTA | None of the Above | 839 | 0.38 | ||
| Majority | 60,730 | 27.75 | |||
| Turnout | 2,19,439 | 51.12 | |||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Dr. Radha Mohan Das Agarwal | 81,148 | 49.19 | ||
| SP | Raj Kumari Devi | 33,694 | 20.42 | ||
| BSP | Divesh Chandra Srivastava | 23,811 | 14.43 | ||
| INC | Narendra Mani Tripathi | 11,171 | 6.77 | ||
| PECP | Dr. Vijay Kumar | 2,187 | 1.33 | ||
| Majority | 47,454 | 28.77 | |||
| Turnout | 1,64,973 | 46.19 | |||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "Gorakhpur Urban constituency; BJP's Radha Mohan Das takes on Congress' Rana Rahul Singh". www.financialexpress.com. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ↑ "Gorakhpur Urban Election Results 2017: Radha Mohan Das Agrawal of BJP Leading". News18. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ↑ "गोरखपुर शहरी विधानसभा चुनाव 2018 परिणाम, उत्तर प्रदेश". NDTV Khabar. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ↑ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.